Acute Pancreatitis in a Patient with Complicated Falciparum Malaria
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Falciparum malaria complicated with acute pancreatitis: a report of case series.
Clinical manifestations of malaria cover a wide range of symptoms. Although most infected individuals will only have a relatively benign febrile illness, 1–3 million deaths per year occur due to severe malaria world wide1. This comprises severe syndromes such as cerebral malaria, severe anaemia, jaundice, renal failure, acute respiratory disstress syndrome etc. either alone or in combination2. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2249-782X
DOI: 10.7860/jcdr/2016/17099.7151